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Coming Straight to DVD

Debbie Gibson has seen better days.

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Hopefully WifeGeeding Won’t Do This To Me

Woman says she killed husband over TV volume during Dallas Cowboys game

An Allen woman accused of killing her husband said she stabbed him in the heart after he turned up the volume of a Dallas Cowboys game, according to media reports.
Kimberly Shanks

A grand jury indicted Kimberly Shanks, 51, on May 7 for fatally stabbing Charles Shanks, 49, on Dec. 14. She will appear before a judge on May 27.

Shanks admitted to killing her husband at their home in the 1400 block of Lone Star Court on Dec. 14 after he turned up the volume of a Dallas Cowboys game “knowing it would keep her awake,” the Star Community Newspapers Web site reported, citing court documents.

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Never Ending Sun

A one-week time-lapse of the sun never setting way up north.

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GOP Introduces 2010 ‘Year of the Bible’

Members of the House of Representatives have introduced a resolution seeking to declare 2010 as “The Year of the Bible.”

The bill was introduced last week by Rep. Paul Broun , a Republican from Georgia, and co-sponsored by 13 other Republicans.

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Interesting Public Toilet

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Stweet

Stweet is a mix of street and twitt, offering a real new way to discover geolocalised twitts from Twitter on a Google Street View panorama.

Stweet is an artistic project dealing with the appropriation of geographical, photographic and real-time data from the Web.

It offers a real new way enriched representation of information created on internet by two major players of the web, Twitter and Google.

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I toyed around with it and entered a Dallas location and this area around SMU popped up.

stweet_dallas20usa

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Barack Spock

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I found this photo in a NY Times OpEd piece, the picture made me laugh.

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Can you tell the temperature by listening to the chirping of a cricket?

Yes!

The frequency of chirping varies according to temperature. To get a rough estimate of the temperature in degrees fahrenheit, count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37. The number you get will be an approximation of the outside temperature.

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British Newspaper Apologizes

The London Evening Standard today launches one of the most daring of publicity campaigns by apologising to Londoners for its previous behaviour.

Buses and tubes will carry a series of messages throughout the week that begin with the word “sorry.” The first says “Sorry for losing touch”. Subsequent slogans say sorry for being negative, for taking you for granted, for being complacent and for being predictable.

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Google Goats

At our Mountain View headquarters, we have some fields that we need to mow occasionally to clear weeds and brush to reduce fire hazard. This spring we decided to take a low-carbon approach: Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, we’ve rented some goats from California Grazing to do the job for us (we’re not “kidding”). A herder brings about 200 goats and they spend roughly a week with us at Google, eating the grass and fertilizing at the same time. The goats are herded with the help of Jen, a border collie. It costs us about the same as mowing, and goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers.

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Weeeeeeeee

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Kids, don’t try this at home.

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Bag of Randomness

  • It looks like Greg ‘The Hammer’ Williams just can’t kick the drug problem.  Dallas Observer
  • I recently learned that the sun is eight-light-minutes from Earth.
  • A church is combining Star Trek and parenting.
  • Justin Timberlake singing “Opposites Attract” as a tween.  YouTube
  • A very weird picture taken back in 1937 of a child being measured.
  • I’m not sure where it will end, but is sounds like Obama had a productive meeting with the health care folks. Reducing health care costs by 1.5% each year over next decade is a step in the right direction.  But all of this might be a hard sell.
  • Britain’s Got Talent sure does look like an entertaining show, here’s another surprise voice.
  • Alcohol consumption per capita
  • I think I know why I like House so much, I identify with so many things about the show.  Well, other than the medical stuff.
  • Yeah, I know, that doesn’t make any sense.
  • If I did identify with one character, it would be Wilson.
  • Yesterday I felt dizzy for about four straight hours.
  • It was neat seeing Stephenville, TX on Dancing With The Stars last night.
  • Toward the end of The Big Bang Theory when they were in the arctic, I noticed a 70’s era can opener on a shelf.  We had the exact can opener when I was a child.
  • I’m ready to get my stitches removed.
  • Sometimes I think I should be in the ministry, but I know I don’t have the faith.
  • Grace

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